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spf13/cobra vs stashapp/stash

spf13/cobra shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, cobra shows healthier maintenance signals than stash. cobra rates Healthy overall while stash rates Mixed. cobra last saw a commit 2 months ago with 51+ active contributors, while stash last saw a commit 1 month ago with 11+ active contributors. cobra is Apache-2.0-licensed while stash is AGPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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spf13/cobra

Healthy

Healthy across the board

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Last commit 2w ago
  • 51+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 11% of recent commits)
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

stashapp/stash

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no tests detected

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit 2d ago
  • 11 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 29% of recent commits)
  • AGPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

cobrastash
Stars43,89312,298
Last commit2mo ago1mo ago
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Open issues363722
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage3%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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